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Thoughtseize 
Sorcery
Thoughtseize appeared in 3,344 MTGO Challenge Top-8 decks over the past 12 months, averaging 3.1 copies per deck. Its current TCGplayer price is $7.42.
Oracle Text
Target player reveals their hand. You choose a nonland card from it. That player discards that card. You lose 2 life.
Format Legality
PioneerModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Thoughtseize, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer | 108 | 3.9 | 1067 | 3.7 |
| Legacy | 76 | 3.1 | 983 | 3.3 |
| Modern | 80 | 3.2 | 828 | 3 |
| Duel Commander | 7 | 1 | 346 | 1 |
| Vintage | 5 | 1.2 | 120 | 1.5 |
Details
- Set
- Breaking News
- Rarity
- Mythic Rare
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- 20
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Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Thoughtseize
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (22)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
$58.44
5.94 tix - 1 Time Walk
$498.49
5.60 tix - 1 Yawgmoth's Will
$44.00
1.92 tix - 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Timetwister
$780.68
8.08 tix
- 2 Dark Petition
$2.64
0.02 tix - 1 Mind's Desire
$1.01
0.03 tix - 4 Cabal Therapy
$6.66
11.99 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Ponder
$1.75
0.01 tix
- 3 Preordain
$0.47
0.01 tix
- 4 Gitaxian Probe
$3.93
0.01 tix
Instants (7)
Artifacts (11)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 tix - 1 Lotus Petal
$36.20
15.73 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
15.16 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
24.72 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
15.44 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.64 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.29 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.71 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Defense Grid
$6.45
0.02 tix
Lands (13)
Sideboard
- 1 Balance
$1.10
0.18 tix - 1 Blightsteel Colossus
$34.70
0.02 tix - 3 Defense Grid
$6.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Disenchant
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 3 Energy Flux
$0.27
0.09 tix
- 1 Form of the Dragon
$0.44
0.02 tix - 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 1 Leave No Trace
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Tinker
$1.02
2.50 tix
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Sorceries (23)
Instants (14)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix - 1 Ad Nauseam
$11.87
0.02 tix
- 1 Badlands$235.61 8.15 tix
- 2 City of Solitude
$9.60
5.09 tix
- 1 Culling Scales
$0.53
0.02 tix
- 2 Extirpate
$1.31
0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 2 Krosan Grip
$0.76
0.03 tix
- 2 Massacre
$0.51
1.02 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (16)
Lands (20)
- 1 Badlands$235.61 8.15 tix
- 1 Bayou$226.24 6.36 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.03 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.53 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Diabolic Edict
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Fire Covenant
$0.44
0.13 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Forked Bolt
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Golgari Charm
$0.88
0.03 tix
- 1 Invasive Surgery
$0.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Marsh Casualties
$0.07
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.70 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction$1.31 5.50 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (22)
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 2 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 2 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 4 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Noxious Revival
$5.35
0.02 tix - 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Chain of Vapor
$9.42
0.08 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
- 1 Repeal
$0.07
0.01 tix
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (11)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (24)
- 3 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.80 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$8.83 0.02 tix
- 3 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 1 Blooming Marsh$1.90 0.10 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Graven Cairns$1.95 0.02 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 3 Raging Ravine$0.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.68 0.02 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
- 2 Wooded Foothills$17.02 2.44 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Anger of the Gods
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 2 Collective Brutality
$0.34
0.09 tix
- 1 Damnation
$15.52
0.06 tix
- 3 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.06 tix - 1 Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
$5.14
0.02 tix
- 3 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.10 tix
- 1 Maelstrom Pulse
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Night of Souls' Betrayal
$1.72
0.02 tix
- 2 Thundermaw Hellkite
$0.42
0.02 tix
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (11)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.87 0.01 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 3 Lingering Souls
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Ranger of Eos
$0.34
0.02 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 3 Stubborn Denial
$3.04
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix - 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Terminate
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.28 0.02 tix
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (18)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (12)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Collective Brutality
$0.34
0.09 tix
- 1 Countersquall
$0.63
0.03 tix
- 1 Fragmentize
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 1 Liliana, the Last Hope
$4.68
0.10 tix
- 1 Painful Truths
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$1.09
0.02 tix
- 1 Phyrexian Unlife
$0.61
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 1 Stubborn Denial
$3.04
0.03 tix
- 4 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (10)
Lands (24)
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.80 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$8.83 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.35 tix
- 2 Blooming Marsh$1.90 0.10 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Overgrown Tomb$9.33 0.02 tix
- 3 Raging Ravine$0.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.68 0.02 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.51 1.20 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Collective Brutality
$0.34
0.09 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 2 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.06 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.83
0.02 tix
- 1 Maelstrom Pulse
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Olivia Voldaren
$3.54
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix
- 1 Terminate
$0.29
0.02 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (1)
Sorceries (18)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
$58.44
5.94 tix
- 1 Merchant Scroll
$4.56
2.60 tix
- 1 Time Walk
$498.49
5.60 tix
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
$44.00
1.92 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Imperial Seal
$163.77
5.96 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 4 Doomsday
$2.90
0.10 tix
- 1 Ponder
$1.75
0.01 tix
- 3 Preordain
$0.47
0.01 tix
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
$3.93
0.01 tix
Instants (21)
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 4 Gush
$2.52
0.04 tix
- 1 Dark Ritual
$3.19
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
15.16 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Trygon Predator
$0.14
0.02 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (16)
- 1 Memory's Journey
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
9.52 tix
- 1 Misdirection
$5.84
8.87 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.23
0.02 tix - 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.23
0.02 tix
Artifacts (10)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
15.16 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
24.72 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
15.44 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.64 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.29 tix
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.55
1.36 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.88 tix
Enchantments (4)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (23)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
$58.44
5.94 tix
- 1 Time Walk
$498.49
5.60 tix
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
$44.00
1.92 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Timetwister
$780.68
8.08 tix
- 2 Dark Petition
$2.64
0.02 tix
- 1 Mind's Desire
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 4 Cabal Therapy
$6.66
11.99 tix
- 3 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Ponder
$1.75
0.01 tix
- 3 Preordain
$0.47
0.01 tix
- 4 Gitaxian Probe
$3.93
0.01 tix
Instants (8)
Artifacts (10)
Lands (12)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (23)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
$58.44
5.94 tix
- 1 Time Walk
$498.49
5.60 tix
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
$44.00
1.92 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Timetwister
$780.68
8.08 tix
- 2 Dark Petition
$2.64
0.02 tix
- 1 Mind's Desire
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 4 Cabal Therapy
$6.66
11.99 tix
- 3 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Ponder
$1.75
0.01 tix
- 3 Preordain
$0.47
0.01 tix
- 4 Gitaxian Probe
$3.93
0.01 tix
Instants (8)
Artifacts (10)
Lands (12)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Sorceries (21)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
$58.44
5.94 tix
- 1 Time Walk
$498.49
5.60 tix
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
$44.00
1.92 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Timetwister
$780.68
8.08 tix
- 4 Dark Petition
$2.64
0.02 tix
- 1 Mind's Desire
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 4 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Ponder
$1.75
0.01 tix
- 4 Gitaxian Probe
$3.93
0.01 tix
Instants (11)
Artifacts (11)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 1 Blightsteel Colossus
$34.70
0.02 tix
- 1 Defense Grid
$6.45
0.02 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.23 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Massacre
$0.51
1.02 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 3 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Tinker
$1.02
2.50 tix
- 1 Void Snare
$0.29
0.03 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Sorceries (22)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
$58.44
5.94 tix
- 1 Time Walk
$498.49
5.60 tix
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
$44.00
1.92 tix
- 2 Tendrils of Agony
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Timetwister
$780.68
8.08 tix
- 4 Dark Petition
$2.64
0.02 tix
- 1 Mind's Desire
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 4 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.46
1.60 tix
- 1 Ponder
$1.75
0.01 tix
- 4 Gitaxian Probe
$3.93
0.01 tix
Instants (12)
Artifacts (10)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
51.42 tix
- 1 Lotus Petal
$36.20
15.73 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
15.16 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
24.72 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
15.44 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.64 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.29 tix
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.55
1.36 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$1.12
0.03 tix
Lands (14)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (6)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Dread of Night
$0.39
0.60 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 3 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Illness in the Ranks
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.64
8.29 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Dread of Night
$0.39
0.60 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 3 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.15
0.29 tix
- 1 Illness in the Ranks
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$6.82
1.50 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.38
0.01 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.61 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.64
8.29 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix